Where there is a regular scheme of operations carried on, it is the system, and Page 492 not any individual person who acts in it, that is truly dangerous.
— from The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 01 (of 12) by Edmund Burke

This character of the effigy, as representative of the spirit of vegetation, is almost unmistakable when the figure is composed of an unthreshed sheaf of corn or is covered from head to foot with flowers.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

To make up for it she allowed him to write a novel on condition of its being kept secret.
— from The Possessed (The Devils) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

He could not say of course that she was absolutely altered in height or shape or complexion, or in the colour of her hair and eyes, or in the general form of her face—the change was something that he felt more than something that he saw.
— from The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

If, by chance, a person happens to get in, the owner takes care to tear the intruder’s cloth, tie up some salt in one corner of it, and turn him out.
— from Omens and Superstitions of Southern India by Edgar Thurston

Although not openly acknowledg'd by the Author, yet it is a legitimate off-spring, so lovely, and so much desired, that the often Copying of it hath tired my Pen to give my several friends satisfaction, and brought me to a necessity of producing it to the publike view; and now to offer it up in all rightfull devotion to those fair Hopes, and rare endowments of your much-promising Youth, which give a full assurance, to all that know you, of a future excellence.
— from The Poetical Works of John Milton by John Milton

The dance interrupted, in a quarter of an hour, by battle; the cries, the squealings of children, of infirm persons, and other assistants, tarring them on, as the rabble does when dogs fight: frightful men, or rather frightful wild animals, clad in jupes of coarse woollen, with large girdles of leather studded with copper nails; of gigantic stature, heightened by high wooden-clogs ( sabots ); rising on tiptoe to see the fight; tramping time to it; rubbing their sides with their elbows: their faces haggard ( figures haves ), and covered with their long greasy hair; the upper part of the visage waxing pale, the lower distorting itself into the attempt at a cruel laugh and a sort of ferocious impatience.
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

He had been working heartily for six months at all outdoor occupations under Mr. Garth, and by dint of severe practice had nearly mastered the defects of his handwriting, this practice being, perhaps, a little the less severe that it was often carried on in the evening at Mr. Garth's under the eyes of Mary.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot

It ought not to look overelaborate, even though it is spangled with silver or crystal or is made of sheer lace.
— from Etiquette by Emily Post

She wore a lovely white dress without a touch of color on it, and it just set off her wonderful dark hair to perfection.
— from Polly's Senior Year at Boarding School by Dorothy Whitehill

Why is so much time worse than wasted over criticism of its different books?
— from Unfailing Springs by James Hudson Taylor

The uneven distribution of current, or its tendency to flow on the outer parts of a conductor when the rate of variation or alternation is made great, is in itself a consequence of the fact that less energy is transferred into magnetism in this case than when the current flows uniformly over the section, or is concentrated at the center.
— from Scientific American Supplement, No. 711, August 17, 1889 by Various

And if Owain comes----" "Owain is coming," interrupted Zara quickly, as she glanced out of the open French window of the room.
— from In Queer Street by Fergus Hume

The trouble was, however, that with a man of the Marquis's qualities and limitations, the Desert of Sahara would scarcely have been wide enough and unsettled enough to keep him content with his own corner of it.
— from Roosevelt in the Bad Lands by Hermann Hagedorn

She accused Don by turn of callousness, of ingratitude, of folly; she tried to tell herself that he was not worth saving, but without abating any of her torments of anxiety as to his fate.
— from Ramshackle House by Hulbert Footner

From the consideration of these and similar facts, I arrive at the conclusion, that all intellectual or moral activity results from the combined action and mutual reaction of these two tendencies, and that the social system can arrive at that development which entitles it to the name of civilization, only in races which possess, in a high degree, either of the two, without being too much deficient in the other.
— from The Moral and Intellectual Diversity of Races With Particular Reference to Their Respective Influence in the Civil and Political History of Mankind by Gobineau, Arthur, comte de

By these means one can obtain information there, even at a late period, in regard to each child 1066 .
— from A History of Inventions, Discoveries, and Origins, Volume 2 (of 2) by Johann Beckmann

Another type of commission, one in the Army of the United States (AUS), was added during World War II, and all temporary promotions granted during the war were to AUS rank.
— from Integration of the Armed Forces, 1940-1965 by Morris J. MacGregor

Nothing is concluded; but the tendency of the dialectical process, here as always, is to enlarge our conception of ideas, and to widen their application to human life.
— from The Republic by Plato